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Lake Geneva Downtown Restaurants

Date: 1920
Description: Downtown view. On the left side of the street is a restaurant, a photography store, a drugstore, and an ice cream parlor. On the right side is another ice ...
Photograph

Car Ferry

Date: 1920
Description: The Cassville Ferry with three cars and passengers, crossing the Mississippi River from Cassville to Turkey River, Iowa.
Photograph

Olaf Noer Drugstore

Date: 1920
Description: Brick building containing the Olaf Noer Drugstore. A man (presumably Mr. Noer himself) poses in the doorway.
Photograph

Men Work on Streetcar Power Lines with International Model H Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Two men working on trolley car electrical wires (catenary) in the middle of a street. The men are standing on a platform in the back of an International Mo...
Photograph

International Harvester Building

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of the International Harvester building, as seen from the northwest. Lake Michigan is in the background.
Photograph

Experimental Tractor with Attached Cultivator

Date: 1920
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental, reversible, early Farmall (?) tractor with attached cultivator.
Photograph

United States Sugar Company Factory

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the United States Sugar Company factory next to railroad tracks on Atwood Avenue. The building was occupied in 1980 by Garver Feed & Suppl...
Photograph

Butterfield Hotel, Clermont Street

Date: 1920
Description: The Butterfield Hotel on Clermont Street.
Photograph

Central House in Boscobel

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view from street of Central House, with advertisements on the side of the building for Red Crown Gasoline. The Order of the Gideons was founded he...
Photograph

Central House in Boscobel

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view from intersection towards the Central House, later known as the Boscobel Hotel, with cars parked in the center of the street on the right. Th...
Photograph

Center Street

Date: 1920
Description: Center Street with houses and trees on both sides, with automobile.
Postcard

Masonic Home from Above

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of the Masonic Home, surrounded by a lawn and trees. There are two flagpoles along a driveway leading around the building. Caption reads: "Ma...
Postcard

Galloway House

Date: 1920
Description: View across intersection towards the hotel on a street corner. Caption reads: "The Galloway House, Eau Claire, Wis."
Photograph

Stone House in Genoa

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of an early stone house. An automobile is parked on the left side of the building.
Photograph

Chappel House

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view from street towards the Chappel house.
Postcard

Northern Building

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view across street towards the Northern Building, with cars parked along the curb near lampposts. Caption reads: "New Northern Building, Green Bay...
Postcard

Young Men's Christian Association Building

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view across street toward the Young Men's Christian Association. Caption reads: "Y.M.C.A. - Green Bay, Wis."
Postcard

Holy Hill

Date: 1920
Description: View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi...
Photograph

Madison City Hall

Date: 1920
Description: City Hall. 2 West Mifflin Street, with large "Welcome" sign across the front. It was built in the Romanesque style by Donnell and Kutzbock.
Photograph

Madison City Hall

Date: 1920
Description: Madison City Hall, 2 West Mifflin Street, built in 1857, originally had a small Romanesque clock tower in the corner closest to the camera in this photogra...

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